Dear friends,

While living in South Africa I got to know a man called Björn Heyerdahl. As a young boy I was already addicted to books. One of the most important books in my young years was "Kon Tiki" written by Thor Heyerdahl. You have got it: Björn is his grandson.

I am very passionate about what we are doing with our Mother Earth. We are murdering her with our ultra-materialistic lifestyle.
Personally I have decided several years ago to consume less and to have less clothes, less shoes, less furniture, less books, less of every-THING, and to live in a smaller house. Consuming less offers me more time to walk with my dogs, to think more, to feel more friendship and love, to do voluntary work and to increase my awareness and the level of my consciousness. It is my opinion that more and more people on our planet are also increasing their awareness and their level of consciousness. But there are still the millions that try to intoxicate themselves with a consuming materialistic lifestyle and with acquiring more and more THINGS. Personally I do not need a Harley Davidson motorcycle or a 4X4 car to prove to myself that I am a man.
I repeat, I can be very passionate about this. But I am not alone.
I invite you to read the letter I received from Björn Heyerdahl today (15.03.2011)


Dear Bruno

Energy

The recent earth quake in March 2011 in Japan has settled all argument that Nuclear Power is a safe alternative. The argument against it for the past 20 years or so in political and economic circles has been that it is not economically viable, with the paid scientific minions of the Nuclear industry and politicians desperate to be seen as the providers of the energy to keep the Technosphere growing and expanding, providing assurance after assurance that all measures for the safety of nuclear reactors, even in times of warfare and geological instability, have been taken care of – this lie was stripped away in the hours and days following the disaster in Japan. Man’s illusion of control, dominion and manipulation, the biosphere’s resources, was stripped away with it. Earlier we posed the question of whether humankind would wake up through conscious choice to the context of their life, or whether the natural systems, as part of the impulse towards life would have to truly discipline this petulant adolescent that we have become. It appears that for most, the latter is necessary and the lessons are by no means over.

The vulnerability and co-dependence of all centralised systems of power and control are also illustrated by an initial direct loss of several hundred billion dollars from the Japanese Economy. All things are connected and humans will never create anything but temporary autonomous zones on the living, changing crust of our planet. This thin, but powerful, sphere of life has rules and intelligence, and it will shrug off even the most persistent virus over time. Best we stop behaving like one.

The alternatives for mankind’s energy needs abound everywhere. Alternate centralised systems to fuel the greed and mankind’s egoic need for more are not options worth pursuing for the intelligent. They will of course be left to the short-sighted men in the larvae phase of consciousness, feeding endlessly on the festering wounds of the group suffering and egoic insecurity of partially evolved humankind. Again, solutions cannot be examined intelligently inside the framework of a fundamentally flawed system; and yet we are likely to see exactly that from those who still stand to temporarily benefit from the illusion of political control and economic dominion; as this diseased system groans under the weight of the layers upon layers of fictitious constructs that have been its camouflage since the inception of centralised power and currency.

The argument will again be that the masses of humanity, that are relatively freely handing over responsibility to the political and economic constructs, need this energy from a centralised source and in fact demand it. These needs and the methods to fulfil them truly require a complete re-examination before any decisions are made on how they are best met.

The real solution lies in not needing more energy, in efficiencies and economy in meeting lifestyle requirements; not in more industry, not in more construction, not in expansion of the Technosphere, not in feeding the endless need for more of the immature ego of the masses. Again the raising of consciousness and the awakening of humanity in the spiritual and emotional sense is the primary agent for the solutions we seek.

The chaos and destruction and loss of human life in Japan is not a natural disaster, but the natural result of bad design and the inappropriate clustering of humanity. 66 years after the people of Japan suffered the horror of America dropping nuclear bombs on the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; they pay the price for their leadership bringing into the hearts of their communities nuclear agents of mass destruction like a giant energetic horse of Troy. We watch as the communities in Europe, The United Kingdom and America look with new eyes at the entire herd of these nuclear horses of Troy dotting their landscape, sold to them in their naivety by their trusted leadership as the solution for clean energy and abundant life.

©Bjorn Heyerdahl 2011 (excerpt of ‘Blue Genes’)